Minirolls Musings

DOACC: Sound deadening

Diary of a camper conversion

My roller didn’t arrive in time so I built one from spare wheels I had laying around.

I basically spent the day peeling and sticking sheets of butyle rubber to the ping-ey parts of the van bodywork. This adds mass and reduces vibrations that are really noisy in the van. It’s a quality of life job, but I think it will be worth it in the end for a quiet van.

I used my DIY roller all day and prefer it to the “professional” one, for the majority of the install. Only when I needed to reach behind a panel was the handle useful.

Crazy Teppenyaki

One wrong turn out of Banff and we got on our way back to Calgary. I’ve got the hang of this RV thing now. The roads are huge here and the campsites all set up for touring, makes things so easy. I’m not sure it would be so easy in the UK.

Bow Glacial Lake

Who knew such a great day could start with dumping poop out the RV?

Skytram Trek

We walked so far today.

SO FAR!

Aimi’s brilliant idea was to walk from our campsite to the Skytram. It was 6.1km there following some tracks but the main hill up to the cable car was following the road. It took so long to walk that road, the shuttle bus driver passed us twice and decided to pull over to give us a lift the last kilometer to the top.

Malign Tyre

The helpline said it was fine to drive the van slowly so I did… sort of. They wanted me to drive at 45kph which would have taken 3 and half hours to get to Jasper. So I went just a little quicker and did it in and hour and half.

From Nordegg With Love

Ethan is a really cool guy. Very chill and keen to give us the best experience possible without frightening or pushing us too far… but just far enough to get the most out of the Rocky’s.

Golden Skybridge Rest Day

It was not restful.

Iceline hike

Breakfast should not be this many colours. Honestly, who thought radioactive blue was an appetising colour? Let alone green, red and yellow. And I don’t care how many times you tell me they are “naturally flavoured” they still taste like someone else’s old chewing gum.

Banff Hotel Cache

Today we went wandering around Banff. They have pretty much every outdoors clothing brand here and even a Smartwool shop which sent Aimi a bit mad.

RV-ing

OMFG this thing is massive. And ours isnt even the largest one. Its actually considered a small RV!